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- Twenty First Chief
- Born 1716
- 5th Baronet Morvern
- Sir Hector Maclean was given a Jacobite peerage in 1716 upon the death of his father
- Sir Hector returned to Edinburgh in 1745 to pave the way for the Jacobite rising of that year, but was arrested and was imprisoned in the Tower of London until 1747
- Regarding Sir Hector: He did live in Paris to avoid being arrested for conspiring with Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites. Sir Hector was very involved with the Jacobites (see the book, Jacobite Spy Wars by Hugh Douglas). However he did not directly found a lodge for the Free Masons. Rather, he may have helped lay the groundwork for the Grand Loge Anglaise de France (which became the Grand Lodge of France), founded in 1743 under the Comte de Clermont. Prior to that, the Earl of Derwentwater, the first Grand Master of French Freemasonry, introduced Freemasonry into Paris in 1725. At some point the Earl of Derwentwater operated as the first Grand Master of French Freemasonry, and subsequently Sir Hector Maclean (under the name 'Lord Harnouester' a French misspelling of his Jacobite title ‘Lord Carnoustie’) was elected in 1736 as the first "regularly chosen Grand Master". Sir Hector returned to Edinburgh to alert the Scottish Chiefs of the Western Highlands who supported the Jacobites that Bonnie Prince Charlie was returning to Scotland and intended to land on Mull, Maclean's homeland, but Sir Hector was arrested almost the moment he arrived in Edinburgh. It is not clear exactly who Sir Hector was arrested so quickly, one source believes that Sir Hector drank too often and spoke too much. Another position is that the Earl of Derwenter informed a British peer of one Lord Harnouester who was a Jacobite and intended to help Prince Charlie invade Scotland. In either case, the Earl of Derwenter reclaimed his position as Grand Master of French Freemasonry the same year Sir Hector was arrested for being in the service of the French; he was carrying letters to key Scottish leaders. Sir Hector remained in the Tower of London until the amnesty given in the Imdemnity Act of 1747. His arrest pursued more of the Maclean clansmen to join the Jacobite uprising.
See
History of freemasonry, Volume 4
An encyclopedia of freemasonry and its kindred sciences
A Biographical Sketch of Chevalier Andrew Michael Ramsay
- Died in 1750 in Rome without heir
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